BLOG! Fermi Gamma-Ray Sky

Fermi in the News:

• NASA 11/03/2009 Fermi Telescope Detects Gamma-Rays from"Star Factories" in Other Galaxies
• symmetrybreaking
  11/03/2009 Fermi Telescope finds more new pulsars
• Hansen Experimental Physics Lab at Stanford University 11/02/2009 Celebrating the Success of the Fermi Telescope with a Musical Offering
• SLAC Today
  11/02/2009 Concert to Launch Fermi Telescope Meeting in D.C. Today
• NASA | Einstein's Cosmic Speed Limit (You Tube movie) - interview with Julie McEnery 10-30-2009
• symmetrybreaking 10/28/2009 Gamma-ray burst restricts ways to beat Einstein's relativity
• SLAC Today
  10/29/2009 Fermi Telescope Celebrates One Year of Science
  
• NASA News Release
  10/28/2009 Fermi Telescope Caps its First Year with a Glimpse of Space-Time
  Also see: Supporting Material for media telecon

• SLAC Today
  09/23/2009 Fermi Telescope in Action: Capturing a Gamma-ray Burst
  
• Space Daily
  09/11/2009 Fermi LAT Reveals Pulsing Gamma-ray Sources
• SLAC Today
  09/11/2009 Gamma-ray Burst Hits Highest Energy Yet

... news archive

Other Fermi News Sources:

• SLAC: News & Press Releases
• NASA: Fermi News

Trackers: Satellite Tracker;
Also see: Real Time Satellite Tracking

For password protected sites, see:
LAT Login Instructions

SSH2: Be sure to
update your installation.
See:

• SSH for Unix, or
• SSH for Windows

Meetings/Agendas

• Analysis Meetings
• Beam Test
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• Core Software:
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• Travel /Vacation Calendar

Links

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• Status: UW Batch Farm

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External Tools

Ext. Tools Websites

Communications

• CommunicationTools
  (email, instant messaging,
  web meetings)
• Confluence Wiki

2009 Fermi Symposium
Washington, DC Nov. 2-5
Agenda/Presentations

GLAST on Launch Complex 17B

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GLAST LAUNCH:

• GLAST Launch (NASA), and
• from the beach
  plus photos
  and as seen on:
  EVO in Kavli Auditorium
• GLAST Gets Ready for Launch
• INFN: Launch Multimedia Files

Workbook

• Online (always current)
  Take the workbook with you: Download-07-00-02: ~290 MB zipped; ~350 MB unzipped.

SW Cantons

• Anti-Coincidence Detector (ACD)
• Calorimeter (CAL)
• Tracker (TKR)
• Geometry
• Calibration

Doxygen (Latest):

• BeamTestRelease
• EngineeringModel
• GlastRelease
• ScienceTools

• Service Challenges

• Beam Test

• SC Workshop I
  (Nov 29 - Dec 1, 2006)

• Data Challenge I
  (kickoff, closeout)

• Data Challenge II
  (planning, Kickoff,
  Closeout, workbook)

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LAT Ground Software
(old home page)

MC Datasets

• DC2
• Service Challenge

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1st GLAST Symposium
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News ... see News Archive

Collaboration Mtgs.

• 2009/Mar-Hiroshima
  Mar 7-Tokyo Symposium
• 2008/Sept-SLAC
• 2007/Nov-Arlington,VA
  
• 2007/Aug-SLAC
• 2007/Mar-Goddard
• 2006 - Stockholm
• 2005 - SLAC
• 2004 - SLAC/Stanford
• 2003 - Rome
• 2002 - Goddard
• 2001 - Stanford
• 2000 Available in paper format only; contact the LAT Administrator.

2008

• ScienceNews, Web edition 12/09/08: New Window on the High-Energy Universe
• Astromart, 10/25/2008: New Fermi Space Telescope Discovers Gamma Ray Spewing Pulsar
• CERN Courier
  10/20/2008: Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope sees first light
• APOD 10/21/2008: Dark Pulsar in CTA 1
• SLAC Today
  10/17/2008: First Gamma-ray-only Pulsar Observation Opens New Window on Stellar Evolution
• The Astronomer's Telegram 07/24/08: LAT Collaboration Makes 1st Science Announcement
• APOD 08/28/2008: Fermi's First Light
• BBC News 08/27/2008: First light for space telescope
• SFGate 08/27/2008: Telescope puts never-seen objects in view
• AFP 08/26/2008: New space telescope begins to comb the cosmos
• SLAC Today 08/27/2008: First Gamma Sky Map from GLAST – Now the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
• CERN Courier 07/08/2008: GLAST in orbit to explore extreme universe
• BBC News 06/10/2008: NASA's eye on the 'violent cosmos'
• IEEE Spectrum
  May, 2008: New Gamma-Ray Space Telescope to Launch

2009

• SLAC Today
  08/25/2009 Large Area Telescope First Year Data Released
• Science:
  08/14/2009 Cover Story
• naturenews:
  07/24/2009 Ray of hope in dark-matter hunt
• APOD:
  07/09/2009 Fermi's Gamma-ray Pulsars
• The Bulletin:
  07/06/2009 Fermi Comes to CERN (For links to the colloquium material, click here.)
• SLAC Today
  07/06/2009 Fermi Telescope Probes New Gamma-only Pulsars
• NASA News Release
  07/03/2009 NASA'S FERMI Telescope Probes Dozens of Pulsars
• ScienceXpress
  07/02/2009 Abstracts: Detection of 16 Gamma-Ray Pulsars Through Blind Frequency Searches Using the Fermi LAT and A Population of Gamma-Ray Millisecond Pulsars Seen with the Fermi Large Area Telescope
• symmetrybreaking
  06/12/2009 Happy birthday, Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
• SLAC Today
  06/02/2009 Fermi Telescope's Gamma-ray Surprises
• SLAC Today
  05/08/2009 The Unity of Particle Physics and Astrophysics
• SLAC Today
  05/05/2009 Gamma-ray Bursts May Last Longer than Previously Thought
• Science Daily 05/04/2009 NASA's Fermi Explores High-energy 'Space Invaders'
  
• SLAC Today
  05/04/2009 High-energy Electrons Could Come from Pulsars—or Dark Matter
• SLAC Today
  04/30/2009 Gamma Signature, Astronomer's Telegram Cast Light on Dazzling Blazar
• symmetrybreaking
  04/27/2009 Gamma plus radio equals new view of cosmic jets
• The Register
  Astroboffins probe mysterious 'blazar' by Lewis Page03/19/2009
• USTREAM.TV
  04/06/2009 Around the World in 80 Telescopes FGST movie featuring Dave Thompson and Liz Hays
• symmetrybreaking
  04/06/2009 New video of the frenetically twinkling gamma-ray sky
• APOD 03/21/2009
  Fermi "reveals best-ever view of the gamma-ray sky"
• NASA's Fermi Mission, Namibia's HESS Telescopes Explore a Blazar 03/18/2009
• symmetrybreaking
  03/11/2009 FGST reveals sky map and top-ten source list
• SLAC Today
  03/11/2009 FGST's New Gamma-Ray Catalog: Blazars and Pulsars and WIMPS, Oh My!
• SLAC Today
  02/23/2009 "Most Estreme GRB Ever"
• Space Fellowship Forum NASA's Fermi Telescope Sees ... by Klaus Schmidt, posted 02/20/2009
• NASA FGST News
  02/19/2009 NASA's Fermi Telescope Sees Most Extreme Gamma-ray Blast Yet
• ScienceXpress
  02/19/2009 Fermi Observations of High-Energy Gamma-Ray Emission from GRB080916C
• Ivan Semeniuk's Embedded Universe
  02/09/2009 A close encounter, Fermi style
• Science Daily 01/12/2009 Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope Unveils A Dozen New Pulsars
• Spaceflight Now 01/06/2009: Fermi telescope unveils a dozen new pulsars